What three soaps would everyone consider essential to their dens. Soaps that you use regularly in your rotation. My three are; MWF Arko Mama Bear's right now it's Hydrogen. Any of the Mama's Bear soap.
How about 2 soaps and a cream? Arko Shave Stick Klar Kabinett C.O. Bigelow SC I have some others around, but these three products seem to make up the majority of my shaves.
While I have others, these are my current essentials: Tabac TSD (various scents) Renaissance Man and Arko (tied for 3rd) PS: Have used L'Occitane Cade 3 times and it is giving my above favorites some serious competition.
Soaps: Cella Arko Creams: Speick C.O. Bigelow TSD Wheat (I feel this will be moving up as I use it more and keep getting closer to it's sweet spot!)
Soaps: EU Palmolive Stick Arko Stick MWF Creams: KMF C.O.Bigelow How could I forget Maca Root from the Body Shop. I'm using up some other products now, but that will make a regular rotation spot again soon.
I agree totally 1000% I do stretch the soaps to 4 essentials Palmolive stick (grated in a mug) Arko (smashed in a mug) MWF Tabac Creams: Florena is my favorite but Lately I've been really digging the cheap Gibbs.
MWF TSD (whatever scent I have at the time) I have many others I really like, but nothing that is IMHO essential after these two. Don't want to cheat so bad I list half a dozen soaps as tied for third.
MWF MdC (until used up) TSD The MWF is a must for winter here. It gets too dry to use anything less moisturizing to the skin. The MdC is a sample that I use regularly, but hopefully I will have more by the time it is used up, if not it will be replaced by one of my MEM creams as a regular. And TSD soap is really nice (not drying either I find).
I Colonial, Tabac, MdC, DR Harris Almond, C&E Sienna, and Edwin Jagger. The more I use the EJ, the more I like it. That's as narrowed down as I'm going, lol.
I consider MWF and Tabac my workhorse tallow soaps, with anything made by Mama Bear as number three. Everything else is just for fun.
If my top three were not available, I wouldn't be unhappy with the next three, or the three after that, or probably a few others. However, it would be a shame if I couldn't find: Mitchell's Wool Fat Williams Arko I don't count vintage soaps, just because the supply is already unpredictable.